Hypothesis on the Effects of Geomagnetic Storms on Cognitive States of Pilots

The organic processes work flawlessly in those who have successfully completed all the tests of cognitive and personality psychology, such as pilots. Pilots with cognitive abilities have a strong commitment to their movements, and they influence their neural stimulation, such as the ability to acknowledge the right steps to follow in their task or in dangerous situations. Aviation Psychology deals with the physical and mental effects of flight on aircrew personnel and passengers. Astronomical events, such as geomagnetic storms that have a disruptive effect on Earth's magnetosphere in certain periods, will cause negative effects, such as weakness, malaise and unspecified regional headaches, irregularity in movement functions, misbalance, heart infarction, seizure situations and mental disorders due to the nervous system, on these organic processes. This article describes the expected damages to the brain and nervous system caused by the effects of geomagnetic storms, based on the results of previous studies on geomagnetic storms and neurophysiological studies. Application methods of the possible psychological and medical experiments in case of the laboratories to be established in Turkey are also given in this article. The pilot and flight crew flying at high latitudes will experience the effect of the geomagnetic storm directly; whereas the response of the pilot and flight crew using the aircraft in the middle latitudes, such as Turkey, to these effects can be measured only with tests in the laboratory environment. This hypothesis has a special importance, as these experiments will be applied for the first time in aviation psychology literature